New Buggy club - Newcastle - Friday night

[chrispattinson]

On Friday 6th August, a new racing venue will open in the North East.
Benfield School, Newcastle, will host racing on a Friday night.
Club times 6pm - 10:30pm
6pm - 7pm will be setting up the club.
7pm onwards will be racing.

There are two halls on the site. Initially, the smaller hall will be used, but if a good number of racers turn up, a very big hall will be used for racing. so Let's all support this new racing venue.
Organised by Mick Buckle, Gordon and Ross...let's show our support.

[chris68nufc]

Typical. I've just moved to Gateshead. Hope this venture goes well but Friday night? Seriousley? Make it a Tuesday or Wednesday and you will get lots more!!

[autonm]

excellent !! Always nice to have a new venue/setup - see you there

[Barry Williams]

Have you got a postcode for the school?
Will possibly be having a look up with Greg

[m1buc]

WELCOME TO GATESHEAD MODEL CAR CLUB .

Which now has a new venue at Benfield school Newcastle and is under new management.
(and on that point we wish to thank John and Sandra Flamson for all their hard work with the club over the years.)

(The 1st night of racing will be held on Friday the 6th August and will be on every Friday after.)

Racing will remain on a Friday evening with a slightly new time.

6.15 -- Doors open / track building.
6.45 -- Race Practice.
7.15 -- Racing / round one.
7.45 -- Racing / round two.
8.15 -- Racing / round three.
8.45 -- Racing / round four.
9.15 -- Finals.
10.00 -- Clear away.
10.30 -- need to out of hall.

The hall/ gym we are using has a polished wood floor.
There is ample room for pitting but with limited tables, chairs and power points. So if you have your own table chairs and car battery feel free to bring them along.

As before the club will mainly run as a 1/10th buggy club. But will run touring car heats depending on numbers.
We will also be looking to try and run 6 or 7 mins heats depending on popularity.


We would appreciate as much help as possible with the building and packing away of the track. We understand due to work and other commitments getting there early may be difficult. so all we ask if you can do your bit to help.

The place is really easy to find and has ample secure parking.
( car park is located behind the school just off cherrywood)

Benfield School
Benfield road
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE6 4NU

just in case you get lost hear is a link to a map.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...ed=0CB0QnwIwAQ

Hope to see you soon.

[N7ELA]

Originally Posted by chrispattinson

On Friday 6th August, a new racing venue will open in the North East.
Benfield School, Newcastle, will host racing on a Friday night.
Club times 6pm - 10:30pm
6pm - 7pm will be setting up the club.
7pm onwards will be racing.

There are two halls on the site. Initially, the smaller hall will be used, but if a good number of racers turn up, a very big hall will be used for racing. so Let's all support this new racing venue.
Organised by Mick Buckle, Gordon and Ross...let's show our support.

Mint, it's got to be a friday night so we can pack up and go out round the town straight after racing. Maybe clubbing and then home.

[cmgreen]

I'll be there this week

[Sideways_Nutter]

Well we have had our first nights racing and the club was very pleased with the turnout of 13 racers in total, significantly more than we had expected and had been used to at Gateshead. Thank you all for turning up and having patience when we had our teething problems.

The teething problems were expected to some degree and I must admit I was very pleased with everybodies attitude and response when requested to help solve the issues. The positive side to this is the next time we should reduce the number of problems as most people now know what to expect and are learning how to set the computer up week by week.

The racing was very close and the final postions from both finals are below.

A final
1. Gregg Williams
2. Ross Murray
3. Paul Hindson
4. Peter Craig
5. Mike Buckle
6. Jonathan Clark

B Final
1. Gordon Irvine
2. Nigel Johnson
3. Chris Haves
4. Ellis Carrick
5. Michael Auton
6. David Walker
7. Ryan Harrison


Once again thank you for coming and hope to see you again next week.

Please feel free to PM with your thoughts on how the club can be improved if you so wish. From the feedback recieved the club would aim to take on board the thoughts and opinions to continually improve the club and cement its future.

Thanks

Ross

[Barry Williams]

Well done tonight lads, it was a very good night
Good size hall & nice track layout, racing was very close & enjoyable to watch.
Shame we will be away for the next few weeks, but will definately be back when time permits

Barry

[racdeaf]

any pics taken of track and size layout ?